The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-18
COMMENT AND OPINION.

How would Harrison and Hawley do for 1891
Two pretty good States to bring over to the RIGHT
side.-Denoit Tribune.
PROBABLY the present extremely limited de-
mand for decorative politics will have died out
before another year.-New York Sun.
IT is rumored that the President has dscov-
cred that successful anti.fat remedy is reading
the editorials of the Now York papers-Phiar
delphia American.
THE 1,O4S army officers over whose heads
Captain Greedy was promoted to be Chief Signal
officer. will not be in favor OF a second term for
Mr.. observation-disclosures Journal.
"A CLERGYMAN at South Bend. Ind, support
ed family Of six persons on . cash income OF
5000 last year Yet he probably never engaged
in strike in his life.--Troy Times.
IT is fact that the present administration 10
pursuing the veterans of the war for tho Union
with malignant persistence without parallel
among the ineratitude Of nations anywhere.
Detroit Tribune.
A LITTLE less society flourish and moro hard
craftsmanship is what is needed at Washington.
Congressman are not elected to Office that they
may vie with others for the palm Of dudedom.
Cleveland Leader.
HIGH license is practicable and effective, and
the best possible proof of that and of the fassity
of DR.. Funks gloomy predictions about It. 10 the
fact that the liquor men are resisting its enact
ment with all their energies, and declaring. with
unInistakable sincerity. that its passage will
strike heavy blow at their trade.-New York
Tribune.
THE termination of Secretary Manniuss career
as public fnancier is signalized by general
laudation. Yet beyond the active policy Of his
administration in behalf Of the moneyed inter-
ests it is difficult to see in what respect his ad
ministration has distinguished itself. What the
Secretary has done in the line of reducing the
debt and paying off the interest has been copy
of his Republican predecessors -Pittsburg Dis
patch
|. LET the President look to it. The boys in the
trenches will have no more monkeying with the
mugwumps or with the king Of muewumps Ii
it once crosses their mind seriously that Mr.
Curtis speaks by the card. and that Mr.. Cleve-
land really thinks that his election was not q
Democratic victory, good EVENING" We are
| down pretty low upon the ground, as it is we do
confess; but not quite SO deep in the miro as that
| bless God!-Louisville Courier-JournaL
| If half dozen organizers of labor who have
| collected money from laborers under the false
pretense that they would pay it to strikezs could
| be laid hold ut and sequestered in Blackwslrs
Island or Sing Sing. their method OF organizing
labor would lanRuish. Strikes would thsn be
carried on only by those who had q direct and To-
| Ultimate interest in the result of them, and
would be declared only when there was reason.
able chance OF their succeeding It Is the cause.
less and hopeless strikes that so mischieyous,
and these are instigated and maintained not by
the strikers, but by the 'leaders. New York
| Times.
IT is right that Union soldiers who are unable
| to work, and are wholly without means, should
| be taken care of. AS far ~ that was the object
of the disability bill, the measure il worthy
one. but its language is inexact, 'eQuvocal and
| vague. 1t gives $l2 month to all, under = dis
| ability which makes them unable to earn sap
port, who served in the army or navy Of the
United States for three months in any war. The
young blades who enlisted for three months At
the outbreak Of the civil war. under the impress.
sion that it was to be holiday parade, and who
left the service as soon as they could after they
| discovered their mistake, are put on the game
| footing as the veterans who fought through the
| war, though many of the three-months men
never saw Observation-Disclosures Press ~
1T is probable that DR.. Crosby believes mot
| only in temperance, but in total abstinence In
many cases. bnt he has been goaded into gen
eral defense of drinking by the extremity, and
absurdty, and insanity of the advocates Of prohi-
bition. There will be more of this too Intel
ligence will revolt all along the line it the i'm
becilites of some of the prohibition advocates
continue ''Christ himself could mot obtain
membership In my church If He should drink
wine," said one New York pastor. This sort OF
thing, with the elaborate attempts to distort tho
Scriptures into their support, the shutting Of the
gates of heaven against the man who drinks
vine. the substitution of prohibition for relig.
ion. the insanity of trying to make men temper
ate by written laws. oil tend to create revolt
/ Milwaukee Sentinel